SECOND REGULAR SESSION
93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES HARRIS (23) (Sponsor), AULL, BAKER (25), JOHNSON (61), HENKE, SHOEMYER, ROORDA, CASEY, OXFORD, WILDBERGER, BOWMAN, BOGETTO, WITTE, VILLA, DONNELLY, HUGHES, EL-AMIN, RUCKER, HOSKINS, BROWN (50), HUBBARD, HARRIS (110), LeVOTA, PAGE, WHORTON, LAMPE, DOUGHERTY, BURNETT, YAEGER, DARROUGH, FRASER, SPRENG, LOWE (44) AND WALSH (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time January 9, 2006 and copies ordered printed.
STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal sections 34.070 and 34.073, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to state purchasing.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 34.070 and 34.073, RSMo, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 34.070 and 34.073, to read as follows:
34.070. In making purchases, the commissioner of administration or any agent of the state with purchasing power shall give preference to all commodities and tangible personal property manufactured, mined, produced or grown within the state of Missouri and to all firms, corporations or individuals doing business as Missouri firms, corporations or individuals, when quality is equal or better and delivered and the price is [the same or less] within five percent, more or less, or the lowest bid price. The commissioner of administration or any agent of the state with purchasing power may also give such preference whenever competing bids, in their entirety, are comparable.
34.073. 1. In letting contracts for the performance of any job or service, all agencies, departments, institutions, and other entities of this state and of each political subdivision of this state shall give preference to all firms, corporations, or individuals doing business as Missouri firms, corporations, or individuals, or which maintain Missouri offices or places of business, when the quality of performance promised is equal or better and the price quoted is [the same or less] within five percent, more or less, of the lowest bid price. The commissioner of administration may also give such preference whenever competing bids, in their entirety, are comparable.
2. Notwithstanding the requirements of subsection 1 of this section, the commissioner of administration shall give further preference as required by section 34.076.
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